skittlesmcgee33

skittlesmcgee33 t1_j3j602z wrote

You're correct that it's not a magic bullet for everyone, but it's not some sliding scale where exercise is correlated to only works for people on like a "5 or below" on the depression scale.

"It doesn't work for everyone" does not automatically mean "it only works for mild cases". Those who see massive benefits from exercise (and those who don't) come from both severe and mild cases.

I'm not trying to nitpick here. It's just that depression makes people think their depression is somehow unique or significantly worse than everyone else's - and people commonly bush off the exercise thing entirely because "that's for mild cases of the weekend blues, not for real depressed people like me lying in bed pissing in Gatorade bottles".

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skittlesmcgee33 t1_j3hyqef wrote

For a lot of people it is an antidote. I think at the very least it is a very very powerful prophylactic. Children shouldn’t get depressed. Mandated physical education helps.

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skittlesmcgee33 t1_j1n8rvb wrote

What I’m most excited for is simulations of quantum systems - particularly in biotech. Today we can only really model the simplest of molecules accurately. There’s just too many degrees of freedom we can’t accurately predict within a quantum system.

And in biology form = function. Know how it’s structured, and you can know how it’ll behave. Will be huge for new treatments.

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